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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fight \Fight\ (f[imac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fought (f[add]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Fighting .] [OE. fihten, fehten, AS. feohtan; akin to D. vechten, OHG. fehtan, G. fechten, Sw. f["a]kta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare to fight, pugnus fist.] ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Engaged in war or other conflict. 2 apt to provoke a fight. n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight v (present participle of fight English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces" [syn: active , combat-ready , fighting(a) ] engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war" [syn: ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fighting is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy , released in 1975. After spending four albums trying to find their niche, the band finally forged an identifiable sound featuring the twin guitars of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson . This ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"qualified or trained to fight," mid-14c., present participle adjective from fight (v.). Fighting chance is from 1877; fighting mad is attested by 1750; fighting words is by 1882. Fighty "pugnacious" is attested from c.1200.

Usage examples of fighting.

Give me the Saltings of Essex with the east winds blowing over them, and the primroses abloom upon the bank, and the lanes fetlock deep in mud, and for your share you may take all the scented gardens of Sinan and the cups and jewels of his ladies, with the fightings and adventures of the golden East thrown in.

They will find no Pelton, but they will find three women who will swear that, yes, you and your men demanded admittance last night, whereupon you behaved with drunken debauchery, fighting amongst yourselves.

Orange was hailed with approbation and delight by the Catholic leaders, those promoted by Adrets excited such a storm of indignation, among the Huguenots of all classes, that he shortly afterwards went over to the other side, and was found fighting against the party he had disgraced.

If they did, they would not find his only carrier airing bedding and fighting rust in port.

Second, he must recover the fighting qualities of an airman and therefore develop himself physically by such gymnastic exercises as a bedridden man is capable of doing.

Ever since Akela had been deposed, the Pack had been without a leader, hunting and fighting at their own pleasure.

When Alem was growing up, his parents were always fighting and his mother would go off and stay with her family and it would be just Alem and his brother and sister and their father.

The creature screamed out in pain while Blaise killed one and Anir finished off the Adoni he was fighting.

My poor flesh freezes when I think of Ken out in the fearful anomaly now, fighting that enemy machine.

Pete could just see Rusa and Arrach in the stern, fighting the tiller.

Saro stood over his brother for a few moments, clenching and unclenching his hands, fighting down the nausea that threatened to assail him.

As long as the capital was assailed from the north or the east, he might hope with some reason, by hard fighting, to repulse the assault, and hold Richmond.

Although Diomedes leads the counterattack, followed closely by the Atrides, Agamemnon and Menelaus, followed in turn by Big Ajax and Little Ajax, and although these heroes take their toll on the Trojans in spearcasts and shortsword clashes, the fighting now is centered around the Achaean archer Teucer, bastard son of Telamon and half-brother to Big Ajax.

Any more fighting, Auster, and you can go back to the Nevarsin House of Penitence for a full season.

Its prayer is to hold fast the pious mind, the smooth painless life at peace with heaven and earth, instead of fighting with the invincible, aweless outcast from all law.